Saturday, July 14, 2007

Oooooooooooh ~ I'm in love! Isn't this vintage "plate on a pedestal" made by Tina absolutely beautiful? She so sweetly boxed up THIS pretty creation, a locally made candle AND the most delicious home-town nut bread from "Leon's Pastry Shop"...as a thank you gift for the little, teeny-tiny bit of help that live web cams had given her. I think, well no, I KNOW that I got the best end of this deal! Oh my gosh! Something gorgeous to own and cherish, something so fragrantly divine AND something so incredibly yummy??? Thank YOU dear Tina! I love having you and your wonderful Cherry Hill Cottage represented in our home!

... by Matt Jones and Chris Heathcote from Nokia. Unfortunately I couldn't capture the best bit of this presentation, the moment when Matt and Chris held out their phones and touched them - blip - and digitally swapped business cards. Gorgeous. In the beginning was paper tape: completely opaque. Then came the command line: an arrow, a cursor, and you had to remember the incantations. This led to text based programming. Then the WIMP. Windows through a window. Very abstract stuff, lots of guesswork – “moving this moves that”. Programming, however, remained in the command line. Then we starting losing things. The moment you could overlap a window, you had no spatial memory of where everything is. There are various limited solutions to this – Task bar, apps bar, Expose.. But the world is not a computer. We need roller caster ew ways of controlling and understanding our digital world - you can’t use a mouse with a mobile phone, or tap on a keyboard at a bus stop. Also digital is really hard. Pick up a spanner and you know which end does what: this is called ‘affordance’ in user interaction speak. Digital interactions don’t have affordances ... the Apple window bar has three traffic lights, and you have no idea what they do until you click them. Everyone says ubiquitous computing is 20 years out, no matter when you say it. I say it’s here already, it’s just not evenly distributed.

... by Matt Jones and Chris Heathcote from Nokia. Unfortunately I couldn't capture the best bit of this presentation, the moment when Matt and Chris held out their phones and touched them - blip - and digitally swapped business cards. Gorgeous. In the beginning was paper tape: completely opaque. Then came the command line: an arrow, a cursor, and you had to remember the incantations. This led to text based programming. Then the WIMP. Windows through a window. Very abstract stuff, lots of guesswork – “moving this moves that”. Programming, however, remained in the command line. Then we starting losing things. The moment you could overlap a window, you had no spatial lyrics contest emory of where everything is. There are various limited solutions to this – Task bar, apps bar, Expose.. But the world is not a computer. We need new ways of controlling and understanding our digital world - you can’t use a mouse with a mobile phone, or tap on a keyboard at a bus stop. Also digital is really hard. Pick up a spanner and you know which end does what: this is called ‘affordance’ in user interaction speak. Digital interactions don’t have affordances ... the Apple window bar has three traffic lights, and you have no idea what they do until you click them. Everyone says ubiquitous computing is 20 years out, no matter when you say it. I say it’s here already, it’s just not evenly distributed.

Oooooooooooh ~ I'm in love! Isn't this vintage "plate on a pedestal" made by Tina absolutely beautiful? She so sweetly boxed up THIS pretty creation, a locally made candle AND the most delicious home-town nut bread from "Leon's Pastry Shop"...as a thank you gift for the little, teeny-tiny bit of help that I had given her. I think, well no, I KNOW life insurance lead generation hat I got the best end of this deal! Oh my gosh! Something gorgeous to own and cherish, something so fragrantly divine AND something so incredibly yummy??? Thank YOU dear Tina! I love having you and your wonderful Cherry Hill Cottage represented in our home!

I've mentioned before that my field site is a typical urban forest, loaded with invasive species. The primary woody invaders are buckthorns ( Rhamnus catartica and frangula ). I've wondered why the mono-patches of buckthorn usually had no litter layer beneath them. It turns out this is likely due to a synergistic relationship between buckthorn and exotic earthworms. First, a little background adobe photoshop plugins n the worms. Michigan has no native earthworms. Neither does most of the upper Midwest, much of New England, or Canada. The Wisconsin glaciation exterminated whatever species may have occurred in these areas. Click on the map; the blue area is the extent of this last glaciation. If you live in these areas, all the worms you find when you turn a spade of earth likely have European or Eurasian origins. Some arrived in soil and plant material brought by colonial settlers. More recently, there has been a much larger influx from worms imported and raised as fish bait and for vermiculture. North America's non-native wormifauna is comprised of nearly four dozen species, including the common species we call nightcrawlers ( Lumbricus terrestris ) and red wigglers ( L. rubellus ). Non-native earthworms are common in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Wilderness areas are invaded by the dumping of unused fish bait, and the transport of soil in logging operations, for example. Northern forests evolved to function with a thick layer of organic matter which acts as a mulch.

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I've mentioned before that my field site is a typical urban forest, loaded with invasive species. The primary woody invaders are buckthorns ( Rhamnus catartica and frangula ). I've wondered why the mono-patches lawyers search f buckthorn usually had no litter layer beneath them. It turns out this is likely due to a synergistic relationship between buckthorn and exotic earthworms. First, a little background on the worms. Michigan has no native earthworms. Neither does most of the upper Midwest, much of New England, or Canada. The Wisconsin glaciation exterminated whatever species may have occurred in these areas. Click on the map; the blue area is the extent of this last glaciation. If you live in these areas, all the worms you find when you turn a spade of earth likely have European or Eurasian origins. Some arrived in soil and plant material brought by colonial settlers. More recently, there has been a much larger influx from worms imported and raised as fish bait and for vermiculture. North America's non-native wormifauna is comprised of nearly four dozen species, including the common species we call nightcrawlers ( Lumbricus terrestris ) and red wigglers ( L. rubellus ). Non-native earthworms are common in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Wilderness areas are invaded by the dumping of unused fish bait, and the transport of soil in logging operations, for example. Northern forests evolved to function with a thick layer of organic matter which acts as a mulch.

I've mentioned before that my field site is a typical urban forest, loaded with invasive species. The primary woody invaders are buckthorns ( Rhamnus catartica and frangula ). I've wondered why the mono-patches of buckthorn usually had no litter layer beneath them. It turns out this is likely due to a synergistic relationship between buckthorn and exotic earthworms. First, a little background on the worms. Michigan has no native earthworms. Neither does most of the upper Midwest, much of New England, or Canada. The Wisconsin glaciation exterminated whatever species may have occurred in these areas. Click on the map; the blue area is the extent of this last glaciation. If spyware scan ou live in these areas, all the worms you find when you turn a spade of earth likely have European or Eurasian origins. Some arrived in soil and plant material brought by colonial settlers. More recently, there has been a much larger influx from worms imported and raised as fish bait and for vermiculture. North America's non-native wormifauna is comprised of nearly four dozen species, including the common species we call nightcrawlers ( Lumbricus terrestris ) and red wigglers ( L. rubellus ). Non-native earthworms are common in urban, suburban, and rural areas. Wilderness areas are invaded by the dumping of unused fish bait, and the transport of soil in logging operations, for example. Northern forests evolved to function with a thick layer of organic matter which acts as a mulch.

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